That Night Eight Years Ago

The Uchiha Clan compound was rather desolate beneath the night sky. It felt as though something was brewing and congealing in the air.

Uchiha Shin kept his head lowered as he darted through the darkness like a ghost. Before long, he arrived outside Uchiha Fugaku's mansion.

"What extravagance."

Uchiha Shin lightly leaped onto the mansion roof, then paced back and forth across it, making faint noises before swiftly departing.

The next instant, a figure shot out of the mansion like lightning and closely followed behind him.

As expected of someone Orochimaru valued.

Uchiha Shin sneered inwardly.

Only after leading Uchiha Itachi to a secluded forest did Uchiha Shin stop.

"Who are you?!"

The next second, Uchiha Itachi descended from above as well.

Uchiha Shin slowly turned around. Beneath the Spiral Mask, a pair of Three-Tomoe Sharingan stared at him with a trace of chill.

"Sharingan?" Uchiha Itachi's expression sharpened. He knew every clansman who had awakened the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, but there was no one like this man among them.

"Who I am isn't important. What's important is that you're in a very bad situation, Uchiha Itachi." Uchiha Shin deliberately laughed in a gruff voice.

Uchiha Itachi slowly drew a kunai. Then his dark eyes shifted, immediately revealing the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, and he lunged at Uchiha Shin.

"Foolish." Uchiha Shin gave a sinister laugh and charged forward instead of retreating.

Their figures collided in midair. After a brief pause, they both retreated in the form of afterimages, then rushed at each other even faster, clashing back and forth through the air like ghosts as an unending series of metallic impacts rang out.

In just a few breaths, the two had already exchanged dozens of blows.

To defeat him, I have to activate the Mangekyō.

Uchiha Itachi's expression was grave. During their